Gender in Applied Communication Contexts Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Challenging Common Sense
1	When They Know Who We Are: The National Women's Music Festival Comes to Ball State University	3
2	Revisiting Sexual Harassment in Academe: Using Feminist Ethical and Sensemaking Approaches to Analyze Macrodiscourses and Micropractices of Sexual Harassment	25
3	Women, Men, and Changing Organizations: An Organizational Culture Examination of Gendered Experiences of Telecommuting	47
4	Commentary: Lessons Learned and Possibilities Revealed From Feminist Scholarship	69
5	Women Cancer Survivors: Making Meaning of Chronic Illness, Disability, and Complementary Medicine	79
6	The Defining of Menopause	99
7	Consuming Breasts: Our Breasts, Our Selves	123
8	Reframing Communication During Gynecological Exams: A Feminist Virtue Ethic of Care Perspective	147
9	Commentary: Communication and Women's Health	169
10	Metaphor in the Classroom: Reframing Traditional and Alternative Uses of Language for Feminist Transformation	179
11	From Transgression to Transformation: Negotiating the Opportunities and Tensions of Engaged Pedagogy in the Feminist Organizational Communication Classroom	195
12	Body Shape(ing) Discourse: Bakhtinian Intertextuality as a Tool for Studying Discourse and Relationships	215
13	Aggression in Interethnic Encounters: Reports by Female and Male Youth in an Ethically Diverse School District	231
14	Commentary: Feminist Classrooms	247
15	Entrepreneurial Mothers' Balance of Work and Family: Discursive Constructions of Time, Mothering, and Identity	255
16	Playground or Training Ground? The Function of Talk in African American and European American Mother-Adolescent Daughter Dyads	275
17	Masculinities and Violence Among Intimates: Stories About Male Abusers and Intervention Strategies	295
18	Commentary: The Pastiche of Gender and Family Communication	311
	References	317
	Index	357
	About the Editors	363
	About the Contributors	365
	About the Commentators	371